Hi everybody, I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills in really navigating the R web page .... i am surprised that only one or two persons wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i was after - although maybe too general for my lazy taste - but hei - it is there and certainly makes my life easier. So - Thank you John and Gabor and Roger for pointing this out. I cannot believe that i never discovered this by myself ...... If anybody takes up the challenge Roger set up i would love to see it ;-))>If you have a little time and want >to really draw in the masses, try doing clickable image maps from the >Bioconductor pkgDepTools:>http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc/html/pkgDepTools.html>because some of the unobtrusive short-name packages are key nodes in package >dependency graphs. The dependency trees are very illuminating. Automating the >updates would be positive. If you could also run against the Task View listings, >which are readily parsable, that would be very helpful.Baron suggested this site: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ Hadley started this site - http://crantastic.org - which is great - and I hope others will take some time to tag some of the packages. I was amazed to find out that there are well over 1200 different packages for R ;-) And as others pointed out - it will be a very nice addition to Task Views. Thanks all for your answers, Monica _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail?-get your "fix".
On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:> Hi everybody, > > > I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills > in really navigating the R web page .... i am surprised that only > one or two persons wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i > was after - although maybe too general for my lazy taste - but hei > - it is there and certainly makes my life easier. So - Thank you > John and Gabor and Roger for pointing this out. I cannot believe > that i never discovered this by myself ...... If anybody takes up > the challenge Roger set up i would love to see it ;-)) >I have to say that the Task Views are a tad harder to find than I would have expected. Namely, if someone goes to the main page: http://www.r-project.org/ shouldn't there be a direct link to the Task Views page? Currently you have to go through CRAN, but I would not think of going to the CRAN link under the "Download" section, if what I was looking for was Task Views. Task Views have nothing to do with "Download", and from a new/potential user's perspective they have nothing to do with CRAN either. But perhaps I am missing something very obvious? Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
Charilaos Skiadas-3 wrote:> > On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote: > > But perhaps I am missing something very obvious? > >I thought the task views were located where they are (linked from the page that lists packages) as they summarise the available packages for the given topic. Neil -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-How-to-search-for-packages---wrap-up%21-tp15297545p15306481.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.